Someone already mentioned Hocus Pocus by Focus, so I'm going to go with ...
Heart - Crazy On You
For when the world is going to shit, so all that's left is to get it on and fuck your woes goodbye
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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM
Otis Redding - Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-VscEQugk
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuanwn3v-2I
To be truly timeless you need a few things. A band who knows how to name things. Bad ass drum solos. A couple of electric guitars. An accordion. A flute. Yodeling. Mouth noises. And no lyrics to get in the way.
I give you “Hocus Pocus” by Focus.
Oh damn, I was going to mention this. One of my favourites :-)
Darude - Sandstorm
Let's be real, there's only ever gonne be one song that's never gonna give us up, let us down or desert us.
Tribute - Tenacious D
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Song That Never Ends.
Timeless in more ways than one. 😌
Yes it goes on and on my friend
The Entertainer.
1902, 124 years old. Scott Joplin.
1916:
https://youtu.be/ND2rMET4MVw
1974:
https://youtu.be/vsFGcPujqKE
Chet Atkins:
https://youtu.be/kHtwF-gpluc
The Muppets:
https://youtu.be/p9gSvM4uR3s
3D Printed:
https://youtube.com/shorts/SdG239y8Qnk
Off the top of my head, and of course these are completely subjective, I just think of songs that still feel relevant or still reflect a popular attitude today. Feel free to agree or not.
You’re So Vain by Carly Simon
Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels Band
Piano Man by Billy Joel
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Hotel california - the eagles
Time - pink floyd
Or Time - Prince
Happy birthday.
Tonight, Tonight
"Time, is never time at all, you can never ever leave, without leaving a piece of youth"
But that song has all kinds of times in it. Even the title!
As well as other other units of time such as moments.
That one Adagio by Albinoni. The one in G minor. You know it when you hear it.
Badfish by Sublime
Stairway To Heaven
Morning Dew
Suspicious Minds
Three Little Birds
Beethoven’s Fifth
The Washington Post March
Time in a bottle - jim croce
Aww, thank you very much for this comment, which not only has "time" in the title but is actually pretty timeless, beyond any meme value. Jim Croce even has several songs that have outlived his generation, such as "I Got a Name." Those are exactly the songs I was referring to - the ones that, decades later, continue to reach new audiences through movie soundtracks and such.
Morning has broken also by Cat Stevens.
Yes, Yusuf Islam is truly timeless, even though he probably wouldn't be very successful in the U.S. today under his new name
Tea for the tillerman is a must have on vinyl.
for me its jethro tulls wondering again.
Depeche mode - Enjoy the silence. Most timeless song to me.
Songs that will always be good are like:
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Just a Day - Feeder
Or do you mean songs that will always sound new? That’s a harder one.
Just a day is such a period piece. The slight fuzziness of a microphone you got from poundland and have lost the little foam bit already but youre still recording with it on the recorder that comes with XP
No, no, I mean songs that stand the test of time because they’re so catchy. "Son of a Preacher Man" is definitely one of those songs. I actually hadn’t heard “Just a Day” by Feeder before. Probably because alternative rock was never really my thing - but I can see, or rather hear, the timelessness in this one too :)
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"Hard Times Come Again No More"
I have prepared this playlist for this question. These are all songs related to being out of time. (Ordered roughly by relevance)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdhMu7XX4FMWae_Zei3Jj9Sn-rBWb1vgZ
If you tolerate this…
Liquido - narcotic
I don't think I ever knew the name of this song, even though everyone knows it, of course. Thank you so much!
time after time
Player's "Baby Come Back" and John Lennon's "Woman" come to mind. Also, Juan Gabriel's "Amor Eterno" (Eternal Love), an ode to dead moms and the love we have for them despite their absence.
Walk don’t run , personally I like the cover by Chet Atkins best but the original is by Johnny Smith.
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